Elderly Nutrition Program

The Elderly Nutrition Program was a very effective program that addressed issues such as nutrition, health -related, and supportive services to a population that needed these problems addressed. It reaches three million older persons annually, on the national level, which is an about 7% of the older population. The program achieved the primary outcomes of Congress which led to an overall better health of the older people’s population. Participants were better nourished, increased their levels of socialization in ambulatory and homebound settings, and decreased nutrition risk while being cost efficient. Funding for this program included one quarter of home delivered meals and congregate meal costs. Other resources, which were nonfederal, came from community volunteers, participant donations, and private funding from a specific source or from the state. Every dollar from this project was put to use effectively and efficiently to comply with Congress outcome demands and their budget. With both public and private …show more content…
Although the programs framework was not a direct comparison to previous home and community based care programs, it was unique in its own right setting new milestones for programs in the future to follow. For some, this began a discussion of concern about other programs that were based on home and community based health care. Reason for this discussion was the ENP was very successful and managed to meet objectives efficiently without it costing the federal resources a tremendous amount of money. Also the ENP did not really compare to other programs because in the past the programs were not as successful as the ENP.
In conclusion, the Elderly Nutrition Program emphasized nutrition services for the older population. Making nutrition the number one risk factor that change the outcomes of chronic diseases and their complications in this